French conjugation is hard when you have to learn them in one go, there are near 20 different tenses, 3 groups of verbs, and even more subgroups. Today, I'll write a bit (in english) about the basics of the french conjugation in order to help you all understand how it works.

conjugation 101

Verbs in french are oftenly put in their infinitive form (Manger, courir, boire, aller,...) which is composed of a radical with the infinitive termination (mange-[e]r, cour-ir) except the many exceptions of the verbs with an irregular radical (boire, aller,...).
To conjugate a verb, most of the time, you have to choose the verb, the subject and the tense (ex: louer [to rent], tu, imparfait de l'indicatif). Then you take the radical of your verb to which you add the termination of the tense for the subject you picked (ex: the termination for "louer" in the imparfait for "tu" is "-ais" so the conjugation is "tu louais" -> tu + lou[er] + ais)

The groups:

French verbs are divided in 3 groups, each one of them can be separated in various sub-groups. But to put it simply, what are those groups, what is their use and where do they come from?
A conjugation group is a group of verbs that have similar conjugation
The three french groups are simply called Premier groupe (first group), deuxième groupe (second group) and troisème groupe (third group). In this post, I'll use a more obvious name for them "-er" group (1° group), "-ir" group (2° group), and irregular group (3° group)
The "-er" group only have verbs that ends with "-er", but not every verb that ends with "-er" are in the second group.
Same with the "-ir" group, not every "-ir" verbs are in the "-ir" group, but every verb of the "-ir" group ends with "-ir".
For the irregular group, it simply have every other verbs (including être and avoir which are really important to know). There are no thumb rule for this group, so you have to learn the 3rd group verb by heart.
I also mentionned earlier that there are some sub groups in french. Not every french verb of the first group will conjugate exactly like the other, but they are classified in sub-groups, usually refered by one of the most common verb of that sub-group. For example:
Venir is conjugated like devenir and prévenir, so they will usually be put in the same sub-group and in the third group.
Manger is conjugated like ranger, langer, manager,... so they will all be put in the "manger" sub group.
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Historically speaking, there are no "origin" of those groups, as they are just "tools" to learn the conjugation laws. But why do the french verbs are conjugated in 3 ways? Well it's a matter of debate. Latin already had different ways to conjugate certain verbs, so we could say it comes from that, but it could also come from spontaneous evolution.

The tenses:

As I said earlier, there are roughly 20 french tenses, divided in 5 modes: l'indicatif, le subjonctif, l'imperatif, l'infinitif and le participe. Each mode have its own use:
L'indicatif is to indicate that something happened, is happening or will happen.
The subjonctif is there for the wishes, the fears or everything that might or could happen.
The imperatfif is there for orders, advices or indications.
The infinitif is the "base" form of the verb
The participe are either for composed tenses (participe passé) or to create adverbs and adjectives (participe présent)
Each mode have its own amount of tenses for different uses. However, it should be noted that not every tense of every mode is used on a regular basis. the passé simple of the indicative for example is almost never used in day to day french (we rather use imparfait or passé composé).
Why do french have so many tenses? Well for precision. French is a very precise language when it comes to conjugation. If you tell a story that will happen, and that in that future story, you have to mention an action that happened before the story but still in the future, you will use the "futur antérieur" (ex: I'll buy some milk before we'll run out of stock -> j'aurai acheté du lait avant qu'on n'en ait plus). So it's primordial for a french speaker to know how and when to use each tense!
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Since I'll got some free time for the week, I'll try to post a few more posts about french conjugation during the week. I'll try my best to link them together so you won't have trouble finding them.

In my last post, I exposed the very basics of the french conjugation, but today, I'll write about something more specific and problematic: how french conjugation really works?
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In my last post, I already said that french conjugation is simply made like that: subject + verb + termination, so if you want to say "I'll eat", you take "Je" + mange" (radical of "manger") + rai (termination for "Je" in the "futur de l'indicatif" tense) which makes "je mangerai".
I also explained that verbs are divided in 3 groups (1er groupe -> -er group + 2ème groupe -> -ir group + 3° groupe -> irregular group) and each group can be divided in many sub groups (the group of the verbs that are conjugated like "manger", the group of verb that are conjugated like "venir",...)
A comment in my previous post also mentionned the Bescherelle which is a book for french conjugation. You should definitively check it (online version of it) as it will help you find how to conjugate a verb properly.
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So with that in mind, you should be able to conjugate the regular verbs in french with the simple tenses. But, if there are "regular" verbs, there are also irregular verbs. Here is a good list of the irregular verbs for you all. Also, if there are "simple" tenses, there are tenses that are not simple. But dont worry, they are easy if you master the conjugation of "être" and "avoir". Let me explain:
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Composed tense are tenses where the verbal group is like that: "subject + auxiliary + verb (in its participe passé form)". You are probably familiar with that syntax as it is also how the english verbs are conjugated in their composed tenses, and the similarities don't stop there. In french, the auxiliaries are "être" (to be) and "avoir" (to have). The verbs are always in their participe passé form which is made of the radical of the verb and with the termination "é" (-er verbs, not only of the 1rst group), "u" (-ir and -ire verbs) or are irregular (like "être" which becomes "été" or "avoir" which becomes "eu").
In the composed tenses, the auxiliary is the only verb that is conjugated, and in order to master the composed tenses, you will need to master the conjugations of "être" and "avoir" in the following tenses: présent, imparfait, passé simple and futur simple of the indicatif mode; présent and imparfait of the subjonctif mode and présent of the conditionel mode.
There are no thumb rule to know if a verb have "avoir" or "être" as an auxiliary, except for that one "it's almost always "avoir" except for some verbs (that you should know by heart) and even then, it's "avoir" if the verb is followed by a complément d'objet direct".
finaly, the verb in its participe passé form is accorded in gender and in number of the subject if the auxiliary is "être" but not if it's "avoir". For example: "Elles ont mangé du pain" (mangé is still "mangé" even though the subject is feminine and plural) and "Elles étaient parties au restaurant" ("parti" have an "être" auxiliary, so it take the "e" because the subject is feminine and an "s" because the subject is plural)
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And while we're at it, let's talk a bit about when to use the composed tenses, because if you remember from my last post, I said that french aimed for precision when it comes to conjugation, hence the numerous tenses and the importance of knowing when to use them. So here we go:
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Passé composé (auxiliary in its present conjugation) is the most commonly used composed tense in french. It is used as a way to talk about a past action that has ended. ex: j'ai été malade toute la semaine. tu as vu le dernier Avenger? Nous sommes allés ("allé" takes the "s" because the auxiliary is "être" and the subject is plural) en Norvège cet été.
The conditionnel passé (auxiliary in its conditionel présent conjugation) is also oftenly used, so you should know it aswell. It is used to talk about an action that would have happened if a condition was checked (usually a regret or a charge). ex: si j'avais eu un peu plus de jugeotte, je n'aurais pas fait ça. Elle était abrutie ("abruti" takes an "e" because the auxiliary is "être" and the subject is feminine) par le vin hier soir!
The plus que parfait (auxiliary in its imparfait conjugation) is to refer to an action that happen before the narrative time if the narrative tense is already in the past (it's the past of the past). ex: J'étais aux courses et je ne me suis pas rendu compte que j'avais oublié ma liste! Tu avais perdu ton portable.
The futur antérieur (auxiliary in its futur simple conjugation) is as used as the plus que parfait. It is used for an action that happened before the narative time if the narative time is in the future. For example: Tu seras déjà couchée quand je sortirai du travail. (the narrative time is given by "when I'll be out of work").
The futur antérieur can also be used to talk about an action that will happen at a given time (so the time must be given). ex: les travaux seront finis en Janvier.
The subjonctif passé (auxiliary in its subjonctif présent conjugation) is used to talk about an action that might (or might not) have happened. ex: Il faut que tu aies passé ton bac pour aller à l'université.
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And now, we get on the rarely used tenses of french.
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The passé antérieur (auxiliary in its passé simple conjugation) is like the plus que parfait, but only used when you use the "passé simple" tense (which is not commonly used). example: "Quand il eut fini, elle hurla"
The subjonctif plus que parfait (auxiliary in its subjonctif imparfait conjugation) is to talk about an action that might (or might not) have happened in the time of the naration if the time is the past. It is almost only used in litterature. example: Quand je les ai lu, je doutais qu'il eût écris ces lettres.
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And here you have it! One of the most boring part of french conjugation, but a part that you should know. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts or ask for a question :)
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EDIT: L'ironie de faire un post sur la conjugaison sans penser à la vérifier. J'ai corrigé ça grâce aux commentaires de lackaisicalquokka et de Deathletterblues et un peu de relecture.

Hey everyone, I’m utilizing some online resources (duolingo & some websites) to try and give myself a good understanding of French before I take French courses in university next year.
My question is, when conjugating verbs in past tense imparfait, do ‘er’, ‘ir’ and ‘re’ verbs conjugate with different endings? I’ve found one set of endings (-ais, -ait, -ions, -iez, -aient) but are those the proper endings to use with all verbs in imparfait conjugation?

Last week we had a situation in which a client came in that spoke only French. We didn't have adequate access to a translation service so the encounter was difficult.
It was my job to enter the details of the meeting into our records, and to write up a few follow-up letters for the client.
I mentioned that I was proficient in French and could assist with writing the letters. The person in charge (who is higher up than me) was thankful and excited and asked if yes, please, I could do that since otherwise she would have just copied and pasted from Google translate.
I spent an hour carefully conjugating verbs and checking accents and making sure the business lingo was accurate. I even stayed an hour late to help with this. (And no, translation services are not in my job description).
Anyway, we have a company wide Slack channel where people post mini "team successes" and someone lauded this higher-up for doing all this work, going above and beyond to serve the client, etc. etc
I believe they may not have realize it was me rather than the other person, but it makes me mad especially considering the way I am undervalued there. I asked for a raise after being there for 2 years, and they basically said , "it's not gonna happen, we wouldn't be offended if you need to take more work elsewhere to make ends meet"
Oh and they have my whole team misclassified as independent contractors... I think.. I am paying so much in tax every year and am trying to figure out how to contact the irs about this. but I'm scared to lose my job. I have already been applying and falling interviews for the last 12 months or more. I feel really worthless.
oh and, no, the higher-up did not bother to give me credit for my outstanding French.
anything I can do? I know I should find a new job but I keep trying and failing :(

Hello!
I'm bilingual (French native + English) and I want to learn Spanish next. I've started about a month ago, and I've been studying daily (30min to 1h a day on average) since then. I feel like I'm making good progress - I can understand more and more sentences, their structure, etc. but I'm still nowhere in speaking and writing skills.
Basically, I have trouble coming up with even just basic sentences. I always need a dictionary/a translator to get my point accross. This is really frustrating because there's a huge discrepancy between my reading/listening and writing/speaking skills. Also, I can't build up confidence because of this because when someone asks me to say something in Spanish, I can't.
This means that I never try to speak/write to my girlfriend in Spanish (Spanish is her mother tongue), so I don't practice. It's kind of a vicious circle: I don't practice because I don't have the confidence/skills to do it, but I don't have those because I don't practice enough.
This is probably pretty normal (I mean, you can't learn a language in a month) and it'll probably get better over time as I keep studying, so I'm trying to keep my motivation up. That said, I would really like to start using my Spanish as soon as possible, especially with my girlfriend and her family. Unfortunately, the best I can do now is pretty basic, and I often take a while to speak/write in spanish as I have a constant need to lookup vocabulary, grammar, etc.. This leads to awkward situations and frustration.
Considering that, is it worth it for me to try and practice Spanish at this stage (even if I need constant assistance and/or a translator), or should I focus on learning first (studying, reading, listening), and only try speaking and writing later? (If so, when? At what stage of my learning process should I start practicing?)
For context, my current daily routine looks like this:

• Anki: 15 to 30 min a day
  • Decks: First 440 words + 120 most used verbs. I only use it for vocabulary.
• Duolingo: 15 to 30 minutes a day (100 to 150xp)
  • I know Duolingo isn't the best, but it's fun, has a variety of exercises, and is a nice break from staring a vocabulary/grammar.
• Study: Depends on the mood I guess, some day I do 10 minutes, some day I do 1H+.
  • I usually study topics I struggle with, e.g. for the past week I've been mostly looking a pronouns, conjugation and common irregular verbs (iseesta..). That way, I try to fill in the gaps in my knowledge.
• Reading: about 15 minutes a day
  • I've only started doing it recently, and I usually read texts for A1 level.

(I'm sure it could be improved. If you have any ideas to do so, please tell me.)
Thank you very much!

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French regular -RE verbs are a small group of French verbs which share a conjugation pattern. Here are the most common regular -RE verbs:
attendre to wait (for)
défendre to defend
descendre to descend
entendre to to hear
étendre to stretch
fondre to melt
pendre to hang, suspend
perdre to lose
prétendre to claim
rendre to give back, return
répandre to spread, scatter
répondre to answer
vendre to sell
Irregular verbs are so named because they do not follow any of the regular conjugation patterns. But that doesn't mean that every irregular French verb is unique; many of them share a conjugation pattern with at least one other verb. By learning how to conjugate one verb in a group and memorizing the list of similar verbs, you'll be able to conjugate all the verbs in that group.
French has five irregular -RE verb patterns - see examples at the bottom of the page:
1.The first group includes prendre and all of its derivations (comprendre, etc). These verbsdrop the din all three plural forms and alsodouble the nin the third person plural.
2.The second group includes battre and all of its derivations (débattre, etc). These verbsdrop the stem's final tin the singular forms.
3.The third group includes mettre and all of its derivations (promettre, etc). These verbs are conjugated just like battre verbs in the present tense, but I consider them a separate group because they are conjugated differently in the passé simple, imperfect subjunctive, and past participle.
(As you can see in the table below, the first three groups take the same present tense verb endings.)
4.The fourth group of irregular -RE verbs includes rompre and its derivations (corrompre, etc). These verbs are conjugated exactly like regular -RE verbs with the single exception of the third person singular present tense, which adds atafter the stem.
5.The fifth group of irregular -RE verbs includes all verbs that end in -aindre (e.g., craindre), -eindre(like peindre), and -oindre (such as joindre). These verbsdrop the din the root in all forms, andadd a g in front of the nin the plural forms.
The rest of the irregular -RE verbs have unique or unwieldy conjugations, so you have to memorize each one separately. Try working on one verb a day until you've mastered them all: absoudre, boire, clore, conclure, conduire, confire, connaître, coudre, croire, dire, écrire, faire,inscrire, lire, moudre, naître, plaire, rire, suivre, vivre.
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French imperfect conjugations are very easy, as the imperfect of virtually all verbs—regular and irregular—is formed the same way: drop the -ons ending from the present indicative nous form of the verb and adding the imperfect endings.
Être is the only irregular verb in the imperfect, because the present tense nous sommeshas no -ons to drop. So it has the irregular stem ét- and uses the same endings as all other verbs.
As in many other tenses, spelling change verbs, that is, verb which end in -cer and -ger, have minor spelling changes in the imperfect.
Verbs that end in -ier have an imperfect root that ends in i, so end with double i in thenous and vous form of the imperfect. This isn't irregular, but it looks kind of weird.
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There are five main kinds of verbs in French: regular -ER, -IR, -RE; stem-changing; and irregular. Once you've learned the rules of conjugation for each of the first three kinds of verbs, you should have no problem conjugating regular verbs in each of those categories. The majority of French verbs are regular -ER verbs - see the next page for a list of some common -ER verbs.
The verb form that ends in -ER is called the infinitive (in English, the infinitive is the verb preceded by the word "to"), and -ER is the infinitive ending. The verb with the infinitive ending removed is called the stem or radical. To conjugate -ER verbs, remove the infinitive ending to find the stem and add the endings in the table below.
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French regular -ER verbs, by far the largest group of French verbs, share a conjugation pattern. Here are just a few of the most common regular -ER verbs:
aimer to like, to love
arriver to arrive, to happen
chanter to sing
chercher to look for
commencer* to begin
danser to dance
demander to ask for
dépenser to spend (money)
détester to hate
donner to give
écouter to listen to
étudier** to study
fermer to close
goûter to taste
jouer to play
laver to wash
manger* to eat
nager* to swim
parler to talk, to speak
passer to pass, spend (time)
penser to think
porter to wear, to carry
regarder to watch, to look at
rêver to dream
sembler to seem
skier* to ski
travailler to work
trouver to find
visiter to visit (a place)
voler to fly, to steal
There are a lot of French verbs that end in -ER and there are a lot of irregular French verbs, but there is only one irregular -ER verb. However, there are three groups of -ER verbs that have some irregularities.
Aller Aller (to go) is the only truly irregular -er verb in French - its conjugations are unique and, according to some, very odd.
Spelling change verbs Spelling change verbs are verbs that end in -cer or -ger. Their stem formation and verb endings are the same as for regular -er verbs, but there is a slight spelling change for pronunciation purposes in certain conjugations.
Stem-changing verbs Stem-changing verbs are -er verbs that take the regular endings but have two different radicals. There are five categories of French stem-changing verbs: -yer, -eler, -eter, -e_er, and -é_er.
-IER verbs There is nothing actually irregular about the conjugation of -ier verbs - they are conjugated like regular -er verbs, but some of their forms look strange.
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French regular -IR verbs, the second largest group of French verbs, share a conjugation pattern. Here are just a few of the most common regular -IR verbs:
abolir to abolish
agir to act
avertir to warn
bâtir to build
bénir to bless
choisir to choose
établir to establish
étourdir to stun, deafen, make dizzy
finir to finish
grossir to gain weight, get fat
guérir to cure, heal, recover
maigrir to lose weight, get thin
nourrir to feed, nourish
obéir to obey
punir to punish
réfléchir to reflect, think
remplir to to fill
réussir to succeed
rougir to blush, turn red
vieillir to grow old
Irregular verbs are the bane of every French student's existence, but there is some good news. There are some patterns in the irregularities - once you learn the conjugations for one verb in a group, you shouldn't have any trouble with the other verbs in that group.
There are two groups of irregular -IR verbs:
1.The first group of irregular verbs includes dormir, mentir, partir, sentir, servir, sortir, and all of their derivatives (repartir, etc). These verbs drop the last letter of the radical in the singular conjugations - see example in table below.
2.The second group of verbs includes couvrir, cueillir, découvrir, offrir, ouvrir, souffrir, and their derivatives (recouvrir, etc). These verbs are conjugated like regular -ER verbs - see example in table below.
The rest of the irregular -IR verbs don't follow a pattern - you have to memorize the conjugations for each one separately: asseoir, courir, devoir, falloir, mourir, pleuvoir, pouvoir, recevoir, savoir,tenir, valoir, venir, voir, vouloir
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The passé composé is the most common French past tense, often used in conjunction with the imperfect. The passé composé can express any of the following:
I. An action completed in the past
As-tu étudié ce weekend ? Did you study this weekend?
Ils ont déjà mangé. They have already eaten.
II. An action repeated a number of times in the past
Oui, j'ai mangé cinq fois hier. Yes, I did eat five times yesterday.
Nous avons visité Paris plusieurs fois. We've visited Paris several times.
III. A series of actions completed in the past
Quand je suis arrivé, j'ai vu les fleurs. When I arrived, I saw the flowers.
Samedi, il a vu sa mère, a parlé au médicin et a trouvé un chat. Saturday he saw his mother, talked to the doctor, and found a cat.
The passé composé is a compound conjugation, which means it has two parts:

1. present tense of the auxiliary verb (either avoir or être)
   
2. past participle of the main verb
   

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Imperfect
Quand j'avais 15 ans, je voulais être psychiatre. Je m'intéressais à la psychologie parce que je connaissais beaucoup de gens très bizarres. Le week-end, j'allais à la bibliothèque et j'étudiais pendant toute la journée.
When I was 15, I wanted to be a psychiatrist. I was interested in psychology because I knew a lot of really weird people. On the weekends, I used to go to the library and study all day.
Passé composé
Un jour, je suis tombé malade et j'ai découvert les miracles de la médecine. J'ai fait la connaissance d'un médecin et j'ai commencé à étudier avec lui. Quand la faculté de médecine m'a accepté, je n'ai plus pensé à la psychologie.
One day, I got sick and discovered the wonders of medicine. I met a doctor and started studying with him. After the medical school accepted me, I didn't think about psychology any more.
Indicators
The following key words and phrases tend to be used with either the imperfect or the passé composé, so when you see any of them, you know which tense you need:
The imperative, called l'impératif in French, is a verb mood which is used to
· give an order
· express a desire
· make a request
· offer advice
· recommend something
Unlike all other French verb tenses and personal moods, the subject pronoun is not used with the imperative:
Fermez la porte. Close the door.
Mangeons maintenant. Let's eat now.
Ayez la bonté de m'attendre. Please wait for me.
Veuillez m'excuser. Please excuse me.
The above are called "affirmative commands," because they are telling someone to do something. "Negative commands," which tell someonenotto do something, are made by placing ne in front of the verb and the appropriate negative adverb after the verb:
Ne parle pas ! Don't speak!
N'oublions pas les livres. Let's not forget the books.
N'ayez jamais peur. Never be afraid.
-ER verbs (regular, stem-changing, spelling change, and irregular) The imperative conjugations for nous and vous are the same as the present indicative, and the tu form of the imperative is the indicative minus the final s (but see item 4 on this page):
parler (tu) parle (nous) parlons (vous) parlez
lever (tu) lève (nous) levons (vous) levez
aller (tu) va (nous) allons (vous) allez
Verbs which are conjugated like -ER verbs (meaning that in the indicative the tu form ends in -es), such as ouvrir and souffrir, follow the same rules as -ER verbs.
ouvrir (tu) ouvre (nous) ouvrons (vous) ouvrez
-IR verbs and -RE verbs The imperative conjugations for all regular and most* irregular -IR and -RE verbs are the same as the present indicative conjugations.
finir (tu) finis (nous) finissons (vous) finissez
attendre (tu) attends (nous) attendons (vous) attendez
faire (tu) fais (nous) faisons (vous) faites
*Except for verbs conjugated like -ER verbs and the following four irregular imperative verbs:
avoir (tu) aie (nous) ayons (vous) ayez
être (tu) sois (nous) soyons (vous) soyez
savoir (tu) sache (nous) sachons (vous) sachez
vouloir (tu) veuille (nous) n/a (vous) veuillez
The order of words in a French sentence can be very confusing due to affirmative and negative imperative constructions and object and adverbial pronouns. This lesson will teach you exactly how to order your sentences when using the imperative. Remember that there are two kinds of imperatives, affirmative and negative, and the word order is different for each of them.
Negative imperatives are easier, because their word order is the same as that of all other simple verb conjugations: any object, reflexive, and/or adverbial pronouns precede the verb and the negative structure surrounds the pronoun(s) + verb:
Finis ! - Finish! Ne finis pas ! - Don't finish! Ne le finis pas ! - Don't finish it!
Lisez ! - Read! Ne lisez pas ! - Don't read! Ne le lisez pas ! - Don't read it! Ne me le lisez pas ! - Don't read it to me!
Affirmative commands are more complicated, for several reasons.
1.The word order is for affirmative commands is different from that of all other verb tenses/moods: any pronouns follow the verb and are connected to it and to each other with hyphens.
Finis-le ! - Finish it! Allons-y ! - Let's go! Mangez-les ! - Eat them! Donne-lui-en ! - Give him some!
2.The order of the pronouns in affirmative commands is slightly different from all other verb tenses/moods (see table at the bottom of the page):
Envoie-le-nous ! - Send it to us! Expliquons-la-leur ! - Let's explain it to them! Donnez-nous-en ! - Give us some! Donne-le-moi ! - Give it to me!
3.The pronouns me and te change to the stressed pronouns moi and toi...
Lève-toi ! - Get up! Parlez-moi ! - Talk to me! Dis-moi ! - Tell me!
...unless they are followed by y or en, in which case they contract to m' and t'
Va-t'en ! - Go away!
Faites-m'y penser. - Remind me about it.
4.When a tu command is followed by the pronouns y or en, the final s is not dropped from the verb conjugation:
Vas-y ! - Go away! Parles-en. - Talk about it.
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I'm a bit confused on how verbs and the conjugations work in French. Like the whole er, ir, re, etre, avoir, aller, past tense and stuff like that. I makes absolutely no sense and after like 8 years of taking French class I’m school I still don’t get it.

I don't know how to describe it precisely, but it is something I have observed since I started learning Spanish, French, and Japanese. In those languages, the most common verbs often take the wildest forms of conjugation. For example, "avoir" in French and "ir" in Spanish undergo some conjugation that's really different from their roots.
It doesn't just happen in Romance languages. In Japanese, "来る" is so special that it forms its own group. It also happens in English. Compare "go" and its past tense "went," and there is a gigantic difference in terms of form.
I don't really understand the reason behind it, because I'd imagine verbs would be made simpler as they are used more commonly. Please share your thoughts!

So I've been learning French for about two months now, using Duolingo. It's not the first language I've learned, as I've acquired Spanish already. In Spanish, the conjugation rules for most verbs are extremely straightforward, and even the irregular verbs tend to follow patterns.
I'm not necessarily expecting French to have a clear set of rules (Spanish is generally considered exceptionally rule-focused), but I'm wondering if there's some method behind conjugations, as right now I've yet to find a pattern. Are the specific stems, like -er, -ar, and -ir in Spanish?
(I hope this isn't meant for a different sub, but the rules only specified if it was homework related, which this isn't.)

Backstory
I've been working on this dialect for like two-three weeks by now (with my friend who helped me with the alphabet I am writing with), and I think I am done with the very basics by now. The thing that makes me think this is that the dialect is a lot similar to what I currently have (Sedsu). So this dialect called "Agran" (I'll get to its story in a minute) is a language descended from Old Sedsu, which also gave rise to modern Sedsu. It must be said that both lexicon and grammar-wise, it is more similar to Old Sedsu than the new one. The way it got seperated was these enthusiastic "pilgrims" were on the search of the "true light" (from which they get their names "Agransit idyans" (the people who go to the light)) and they decided to travel long distances to find it. The thing is, the planet that these people inhabit is tidally locked, meaning these people never saw the sun in the first place and most probably, it was the "true light" they were searching for. This also means they are not adapted to sunlight, they would burn with the "true light" they were searching for. They did realise this the hard way coming to the edge that sees the sun and losing a lot of people trying to reach it. They decided to settle on the "mid-ground" between the scorching hot and the freezing cold. They built a monastery there and this is the dialect talked and written there. You might be saying "Finally!" and yeah you would be right.
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Phonology
I basically wanted it to be easily talked but not too basic seeing these masterpieces on this subreddit, so this is what I got:
Vowels:

	Front	Back
Close	/i/ i , /y/ ü	u
Close-mid	/e/ e	/o/ o
Open-mid	/œ/ ö
Open	/ä/ a

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Consonants :
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	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	/p/p, /b/b		/t/ t	/d/ d		/k/k /g/g	/ʔ/ - (1)
Nasal	/m/m		/n/n
Trill				/ r
Tap				/ɾ/ R (2)
Fricative		/f/ f /v/ v	/s/s
Approximant		/ʋ/ u (3)	/ɹ/ rh		/j/ y (4)
Lateral approximant				/l/l
Affricate				/d͡ʒ/ c

Notes :
1- The glottal plosive is usually not explicitly told. It usually occurs when two of the same vowels come after each other and it is just known to be there. E.g.: Raán /ɾaʔ'an/
2- The postalveolar tap only occurs when "a" is after it. It is shown by capitalising the "R" in Latin alphabet. There is a seperate letter for "Ra" in the Agran alphabet. Plus, it is not usual to have a "Ra" with the "r" and "a" seperated.
3- When "u" comes in between two vowels, it is pronounced as the labiodental approximant and does not count as a syllable when determining the stress.
4- The letter "y" is solely used before "a" and the two have a seperate letter in the Agran alphabet
5- When the letter "t" is followed by "s", they both give the sound of /t͡ʃ /.
6- When "s" is followed by "h", it gives the sound of /ʃ/
7- When the letter "c" is the last letter of the word or it is after "i", it is pronounced /k^h/. When it is desired to pronounce the letter c as /d͡ʒ/ in the aforementioned situations, an apostrophe is put before it ('c)
Phonotactics
(I would like to tell that I am not a phonotactics expert, so if I tell anything wrong, I would like to know)
(C)(C)V(C)(C)
When there are three consonants in between two vowels, the second consant is given to the first syllable. E.g.: "Fedölmya" (Fed-ölm-ya) not (fed-öl-mya)
The onset only takes two consonants when:

• The preceding syllable already has two consonants as coda and there is one consonant left (which happens really rarely) (e.g.: Eqsprima (eqs-pri-ma
• The onset is the first syllable of the word. (e.g.: Qrhun (Qrhun))

Stress
Sedsu has the stress at the last syllable except:

• When the word ends in a vowel
• When the word ends in "s"
• When the word ends in "n"

The stress not obeying to these rules are shown by accent marks above the vowels.
The reason why these are specific is that I did not know anything about stress when I built the core of this language (Old Sedsu) and it kind of "hanged on" as a tradition. I just went with the Spanish rule of stress because it was so much easier than French or Greek.
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Basic Grammar
Nouns
In Agran, nouns have two genders: "Heavy" and "light". The gender is strictly determined by the last letter of the radix. If it ends in a vowel, it is "heavy" or else it is "light". The reason behind I called them heavy and light is that they do not determine gender whatsoever. I could've gone with "solar" and "lunar" but it seemed a little cliché to me.
Nouns decline according to these genders. Therefore there are two declensions (technically four but I will get back to that in a minute). There are six cases: Nominative, genitive, accusative, dative, locative, ablative.
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	Heavy sing.	Heavy plur.	Light sing.	Light plur.
Nom.	-ir	-irya	-iRa	-iRaya
Gen.	-rut	-rutya	-urut	-urutya
Acc.	-muRa	-muRaya	-uRa	-uRaya
Dat.	-it	-itya	-it	-itya
Loc.	-fer	-ferya	-ifer	-iferya
Abl.	-id	-idya	-id	-idya

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Adjectives
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Adjectives in Agran are what we use to describe a substantive. The adjectives decline according to their nouns.
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	Heavy sing.	Heavy plur.	Light sing.	Light plur.
Nom.	-irt	-irtya	-iRat	-iRatya
Gen.	-rut	-rutya	-urut	-urutya
Acc.	-muRa	-muRaya	-uRa	-uRaya
Dat.	-it	-itya	-it	-itya
Loc.	-fer	-ferya	-ifer	-iferya
Abl.	-id	-idya	-id	-idya

This is where I have to explain why there are "technically four" noun declensions. It is because the Agran can drop the nouns that are described by the adjectives. When that happens the adjective is declined according to its own gender in the adjective declension. The gender is also determined by the letter its radix ends in.
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Verbs
Verbs are conjugated according to mood, tense, person and active-passiveness. Technically there is an inchoative and a causative conjugation, too, which again, I will get back to in a minute. The verb in its infinitive (which is how the dictionary shows it) ends either in "-a" or "-ya". Detaching them, we get the radix.
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Mood	Voice	Tense	1st Sing.	2nd sing.	3rd sing.	1st plur.	2nd plur.	3rd plur.
Indicative	Active	Present	-imr	-ir	-ur	-imyar	-iyar	-uyar
Indicative	Active	Past	-imd	-id	-ud	-imyad	-iyad	-uyad
Indicative	Active	Future	-imt	-it	-ut	-imyat	-iyat	-uyat
Indicative	Passive	Present	-inimr	-inir	-inur	-inimyar	-iniyar	-inuyar
Indicative	Passive	Past	-inimd	-inid	-inud	-inimyad	-iniyad	-inuyad
Indicative	Passive	Future	-inimt	-init	-inut	-inimyat	-iniyat	-inuyat
Subjunctive	Active	Present	-imqilt	-iqilt	-uqilt	-imyaqilt	-iyaqilt	-uyaqilt
Subjunctive	Passive	Present	-inimqilt	-iniqilt	-inuqilt	-inimyaqilt	-iniyaqilt	-inuyaqilt
Imperative	Active	Present	-	-idelu	-uqilt	-imyaqilt	-iyadelu	-uyaqilt
Imperative	Passive	Present	-	-inidelu	-inuqilt	-inimyaqilt	-iniyadelu	-inuqilt

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So this is the basic conjugation. Now coming back to the inchoative; the inchoative is done by adding "-adsi-" directly to the verb root. The causative is done by adding "-enut-" after the verb root if it is not passive and if it is, adding it after the passive indicator "-in-" (which you might have noticed).
Agran has these "impersonal verbs". They include infinitives, pariticiples and gerund. Infinitive acts like a noun, participle acts like an adjective and gerund acts like an adverb.
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	Infinitive	Gerund	Past Parti.	Present Parti.	Future Parti.
Active	-ya/-a	-yas/-as	-yand/-and	-yans/ans	-yant/-ant
Passive	-ina	-inas	-inand	-inans	-inant

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Infinitives and participles being declinable parts of speech are declined as so:
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	Infinitive sing.	Infinitive plur.	Heavy parti. sing. in present	Heavy parti. plur. in present	Light parti. sing. in present	Light parti. plur. in present
Nom.	-ya/-a	-yaya/-aya	-yansirt/-ansirt	-yansirtya/-ansirtya	-yansiRat/-ansiRat	-yansiRatya/-ansiRatya
Gen.	-yarut/-arut	-yarutya/-arutya	-yansrut/-ansrut	-yansrutya/-ansrutya	-yansurut/-ansurut	-yansurutya/-ansurutya
Acc.	-yamuRa/-amuRa	-yamuRaya/-amuRaya	-yansmuRa/-ansmuRa	-yansmuRaya/-ansmuRaya	-yansuRa/-ansuRa	-yansuRaya/-ansuRaya
Dat.	-yait/-ait	-yaitya/-aitya	-yansit/-ansit	-yansitya/-ansitya	-yansit/-ansit	-yansitya/-ansitya
Loc.	-yafe-afer	-yaferya/-aferya	-yansfe-ansfer	-yansferya/-ansferya	-yansife-ansifer	-yansiferya/-ansiferya
Abl.	-yaid/-aid	-yaidya/-aidya	-yansid/-ansid	-yansidya/-ansidya	-yansid/-ansid	-yansidya/-ansidya

The other declensions of the participle are basically the same with the root being the other tenses.
The infinitives are naturally heavy nouns so they take adjectives according to that.
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I guess that is all I have now. I hope I did not bore you with all the background information and all. Have a great day, thanks for reading!
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OK, so, I've been self-learning French for going on 5 years now, and over those 5 years I've made a lot of flashcards. The way I handle flashcards for verbs is that each time I learn a new verb, I want to know if there are other verbs that are conjugated like it, so that I don't create 60-or-so cards for each new verb - just a couple cards that help me place it in its verb group. Easy to do with regular verbs, but then you have all those irregular verbs that, though irregular, still follow the same pattern as other verbs in that 'group' (for example, 'craindre' is irregular, but is conjugated just like 'plaindre' and 'contraindre', so I put it in that group).
Well, the only way I used before was to look at about.com's conjugation page for the verb of interest (like 'craindre') and hope that there's a note at the bottom that says: "all verbs ending in INDRE are conjugated the same way". However, I have a feeling that website wasn't capturing all of the patterns that may exist out there. And it also doesn't have a conjugation page for every single verb (but most).
Now, however, I've just found out that the Wordreference website has a conjugator tool where by searching any verb, you will see whether it's a regular -er, -ir, or -re verb. And if it's irregular, it will list out every verb that follows its pattern, and provide you with a 'model verb' (which I love, because I use that model verb to categorize my flashcards).
Everyone has their own methods for how they study and learn a language, and I realize that my exact method may not be right for everyone - but I figure this tool might be really helpful for some of you too!
http://www.wordreference.com/conj/FRverbs.aspx

I’m making a concerted effort to learn Castilian Spanish in advance of my next trip to Spain, which is in three months. I’ll be in a village in Catalonia where few people speak English, and I’m the only person in our group with any Spanish (no pressure!)
I don’t have any native speakers to practice with between now and then, so I’m looking for other ways to improve my conversational ability.
Advice appreciated. :)
For more background, this is where I am...
Native English, conversational French, smattering of several other languages from travel. I took Spanish 101 in college many years ago. Since then I have picked up some more via travel, talking to people, and study; mostly Latin American Spanish.
Reading: I can read Wikipedia articles and websites without having to look up very many words. I’ve started to read the first Harry Potter book. It’s slow going, but by looking up 3-4 words a paragraph I can follow the plot. Many words are French or English cognates so it’s not too tough.
I can conjugate present tense (for everything except vosotros, which of course I’m now working on!) and I know how to use “ir a” construction to get around future tense. Working on past tense now, but it’s slow going. I don’t have a huge verb vocabulary and I often get different verbs confused. My grammar knowledge basically consists of assuming the grammar rules are the same as French. They usually are. ;)
Verbally, my abilities are much poorer than my reading. I can say simple sentences, and engage in very basic information-exchange conversation with a (patient) Spanish speaker. Like asking directions, buying things (though I usually need the number to be written down,) ordering in a restaurant, introducing people, talking about families and plans for the day. But I don’t have the vocabulary or the experience listening to Spanish to understand everything that’s said to me. People often have to repeat themselves. I want to work on that! (Unfortunately, I struggle with understanding people even in English, because I’m ADHD.)
I do Duolingo, and I have some workbooks for grammar and vocabulary work. I have limited access to Rosetta Stone (Latin American) but I haven’t tried it yet.
I’m reading Harry Potter by reading each paragraph once for comprehension, looking up words I need to know, and words I’m curious about, and making vocabulary lists. Then I read it again aloud once or twice to work on my pronunciation and verbal comprehension.
Anything else I should look at doing?

So I’m from America and later found a passion for languages in my adult life. After learning French, Afrikaans, and Ojibwa I wanted to give Spanish a go but it has been an absolute nightmare. Spanish -> French is far easier for me even though I’m a native English speaker which is a first. I also often struggle with the inability to consistently control what language I think in which makes it all the worse. I’m thinking it may have to do with the fact I spoke Spanish first from ages 2-4. I find myself vividly understanding sentences and concepts that are far more complex like the overuse of reflexives while other times floundering to conjugate basic verbs such ir. Does anyone know the feeling and if so what methods did you use to make it easier on you/learn to work past or with it???
Thank you, first post here, long time lurker

Greetings!
I am working on an online assignment for my french 2 class, its a big test that requires us to get 100%, and every time we get a question wrong, we have to restart the whole quiz. It has 90 questions, separated into two sections.
I am stuck on the ON verb used for conjugating. I have looked it up but cant seem to see anything. The question I am on (and got wrong ughh) says:
Vendre (on)
It wants me to write the RE conjugation in the box below it. Can anyone give me help for RE, ER, IR, Avoir, and Etre verbs with On? Thanks

This is an overview of Bakdila'abitz. Here, I'll explain the most basic parts of the language, its history, and where it's going.
So first up, origins.
One Sunday morning sometime when I was 10, I was forced to go to church. I always hated going to church, and this day was no exception.
At this church, however, there were notepads. Probably for taking notes during sermon. I used them to doodle or count the wooden boards that made up the ceiling above me. At some point, the pastor started talking about Hebrew or Latin or something, and I just happened to be listening. It was the first time I think I ever actually heard another language and was interested (sorry Dora, I don't and have never liked how Spanish sounds). I thought it might be fun to make my own sounds.
Thus, Bakdin. That was the original name. At first, it had no meaning. Then, I made a verb that meant 'to be literate' and made it the root for the name for the language. 'Bakdal' was the new name, trying to keep in the spirit of the old name. At this point, I was now in middle school and had started learning about French and its verb conjugations. I don't think I had ever given any thought to English's verb conjugations, but the different types of verbs really intrigued me.
So, I made it so that the language would have verb types. They are '-kal', '-dal', '-sal', and '-lar' verbs, kind of like '-er', '-ir', and '-re' verbs. Each of these verb types have different conjugations for each pronoun. The conjugation of 'bakdal' for the equivalent of 'we' (now 'dor') was at first 'bakdin'. Because in my mind, "we language" was a good idea for the name.
Then, my head canon for this language became that it was a dead language that was revived for speaking in the modern day in a parallel universe Earth. So, the name became 'bakdinab' for "we languaged." After a while, the '-dal' conjugation for 'dor' became '-dila', so the name for language became 'Bakdila'ab'. It still meant "we languaged," but it was also a word that the language contained.
I thought (at the time) that the 'people' who spoke this language would get confused by the language name just being a word of the language, so I invented a suffix system and made it so that adding '-itz' to the end of a word meant 'the language of' or something similar. Kind of like '-ish' in English or '-go' in Japanese. After I added this, the name for the language became "Bakdila'abitz." The language continued to evolve, and the conjugation of '-dal' verbs for the 'dor' pronoun became 'dil', but the language name did not change.
That's a history of the name. Now the inspiration for the sounds, grammar, and writing system.
Sounds: at first, I just wanted it to sound very different from English. The most common vowel, /ɑ/ is what I imagined as weird, but it is seen pretty often in English in words like 'top' or 'got'. The most common consonants are /k/ and /d/. There is also liberal use of /ʃ/, /t͡ʃ/, and /t͡s/, which are kind of common in English, but as much so as simpler consonant sounds. There is also the usage of /χ/ which is not used at all in English. This ended up sounding like what I thought Arabic or Hebrew sounded like.
Grammar: again, I wanted the zaniest language ever, so I tried to get as far from English as I could. This led to the sentence structure of Bakdila'abitz: OSV. I can't really explain why I went with this, as it's so uncommon. It's pretty difficult to develop for. This is also how I thought Japanese worked before I actually started learning it. So, the grammar has influences from Japanese (sentence structure [at least I thought so]) and French (verb conjugation, adjectives coming after the word they describe) and then everything else is pretty much a priori.
Lastly, the writing system. Written Bakdila'abitz (called Léklakanab, or 'we wrote' with the same idea behind the name as Bakdinab) is an abjad system in informal contexts and an abugida in formal contexts. Again, I wanted to be zany. Even worse, the system is written right-to-left, making it take after Hebrew and Yiddish.
I've worked a lot on the history of the writing system, and I've developed both a cuneiform style writing system and a cursive system.
Now, for phonology. Bakdila'ab has the following consonants:

IPA	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Plosive	p, b		t	d				k, g			ʔ
Nasal	m			n				ŋ
Trill
Tap or Flap						ɽ
Fricative		f, v	s		z, ʃ, ʒ				χ, ʁ	ħ, ʕ
Lateral Fricative
Approximant				ɹ		ɻ	j
Lateral Approximant					l

Affricates

t͡s t͡ʃ d͡ʒ
And the following vowels:
/ɑ/, /i/, /ɛ/, , /ɵ/, /æ/, /ɐ/, /ɛi/, /ɪ/
Not every sound has its own symbol, however. Some letters' sounds are changed by the others in a word. There are two letters that mean two different 'r' sounds. One is the French/glottal /ʁ/, and the other is every other 'r' depending on the other sounds in the word. Also, when the symbol that typically means the /n/ sound precedes another consonant, it becomes /ŋ/ or a nasalized version of whatever comes before it. In total, there are 19 unique consonant symbols, and 25 counting consonants with modifiers and the vowel placeholder symbol. Here they all are with their closest IPA equivalents. This image includes the vowels as well. There isn't really an alphabetic order that is canon yet, and that's most likely because it's easier to navigate Polyglot when everything is in a familiar alphabetic order.
 
 
So there you have it. A hobbyist linguist's introduction to Bakdila'abitz. Further posts will detail individual information about the language. For example, one such post may be on words of the bedroom (bed, pillow, to sleep, to wake up, etc.), or on familial terms. Other posts might be about the agglutinative nature of verbs, or case conjugations of different verbs. Some time in the future, I might have enough irregular verbs to make a full post on those.
 
For now, here are some statistics on Bakdila'abitz:
There are currently exactly 859 words in the language at this time, 12:05 AM on May 1st, 2019.
Most of them are either nouns (42.7%), verbs (24%), or adjectives (10.9%). Everything else is pronouns, particles, interjections, conjunctions, prefixes, suffixes, and irregular words.
The grammar is pretty complete, and I can say just about anything I want to if I have the vocabulary for it.
For now, I'll only really be adding words to the language, and not grammar rules or structures.
The most recent addition was nominalization and a specific verb for using nominalized words.
I will be updating these statistics as often as I can.

I once found a nice grammar sheets here and printed it out. Yesterday, I realized that one thing that's holding me back from advancing in French is the fact I only know present tense -er verb conjugation, so I took out the sheets and decided to learn the future tense and look over the other ones.
And... it doesn't actually seem that bad? Like I was expecting the tenses to be super hard and I already memorized and can use the -er forms of compound past and future? (I don't know too many -i-re verbs) Or am I going to find out in a few days that everything is crazy hard?
(Also: what beginner -i-re verbs should I learn?

Basically, if you know two things about a word: 1. Its spelling (for Chinese, its symbol), and 2. Its meaning,
Main question: What else do you need to know in order to use it successfully in the future?
Examples:

• German: Noun gender and plural formation
• French: Noun gender
• Italian: Noun gender, if there's a stressed "e" or "o", then whether those vowels are open or closed
• Russian: Word stress, Noun gender (though it's often pretty clear from the spelling), Verb aspect, Verb conjugation type

Bonus question: This data all needs to be memorized word-by-word, but that can either require:

• Rote memorization of word forms (the verb forms of être are very irregular, so you need to learn each individual spelling individually)

or

• Category matching (Gender is the classic case of category matching, where you have 2-3 categories for lots of words, but many "irregular" forms fall into just a few categories (French verbs that change stems, -ir verbs that are conjugated like courir (je cours, nous courons) instead of like finir (je finis, nous finissons)).

If it's category matching, roughly how many categories do you normally encounter?

• German genders:3
• German plural formations: 8
• Italian/French genders: 2
• Italian stressed E/O vowel sounds: 2 possibilities for either vowel
• Russian word stresses: 5-6
• Russian verb conjugations: 2
• Russian verb aspects: 2
• Japanese counters: ?

Hi,
I'm challenging myself with reading a book in french and I'm coming across a lot of verb conjugations that I'm not familiar with. Does anyone have a good resource for learning French Verbs? I'm not just talking about the basic -er, -ir, -re verbs. I want something more advanced. Ideally, it would not only show the various conjugations but also explain about when each tense is used properly (in english?). I'd rather not have to search verb by verb on the internet and was hoping there was something out there already geared to this. Or maybe there's an app or game or something to teach verbs.
Thank you for your help!

I'll make a long story short, but first some relevant details:
My girlfriend is a French professor. We've been together about 2 months or so. I've been exposed to French off and on since I was little, but I live in a completely English-speaking community. I need to stress that I really don't know a lot of French right now. I know some basics, to ask where the bathroom is, or to hold a very simple conversation. (I have never been fluent in the language, nor any other language except English) Overall though, my French level can be seen as fairly simple, not enough to be considered fluent by any stretch. I haven't even started learning passe compose, conjugation of things like verbs ending in ioir, if that gives you an idea of my level of French right now.
Within the last two months, I've been working hard at learning French, listening to French radio, learning basic conjugation, and trying to build a small vocabulary (Her whole family is French only, so talking to them should be a fun challenge)
Anyway, I think those are the relevant points. The story: We had some friends over last night, I drank WAY too much, and when I was being brought to bed by my girlfriend, I started speaking French to her. Unfortunately I was too drunk to remember this, however she wasn't drinking nearly as much as I was. No other influences were involved (No drugs, etc) by either of us.
The weird part: not only was I speaking French, but I was speaking it fluently. I don't just mean like the words I knew... But I was using slang, proper tenses, conjugation, accent, everything. She said that it was perfect. I wasn't using incredibly complicated words, but more than enough to be completely fluent otherwise. Of course, being drunk the words I was using were slurred, but no more than any other language. Apparently we talked for over 25 minutes, and she legitimately thought I was lying about my ability to speak French to her. (She thought I was pulling some sort of 2-month long practical joke)
The next day (today), I suck with French again. Not fluent like last night, totally back to my sucky French lol
I have a few questions: Assuming she's not lying (She would have no reason to), and that she didn't hallucinate the whole thing... how is this even possible? Is it possible that I've unintentionally learned French to a fully fluent level simply by listening to it? If it IS possible, the next question is - how would I be able to access that part of my brain intentionally so I can do this while awake? (Without copious amounts of alcohol) Are there any known studies of what I'm referencing?
Reddit - please help with this one. I have no idea if this has ever been studied before but I would love to find out more information.
TL;DR: I got drunk last night, spoke French fluently and have no idea how I did it. Today, I'm back to being English-only again

Gamja 감자 is potato and namja 남자 is man.
Also, what's the fuck with cultural appropriation. That shit is bullshit. Someone posted some gorgeous ass pic of her in makeup influenced by henna and the comments were a shitstorm of UR HURTING MY CULTURAL FEEEEELS.
ugh i don't get the problem with someone wearing part of another culture in a totally innocent way?? like even if they don't understand the history behind it they aren't being offensive so what's the deal anyway???
i'm just really angry that's all, i'll post some happy stuff now
here's daesung, isn't he cute? he has good strong legs too.
also, people hate on buzzfeed but the recipes they collect are mighty fine, here's some pizza
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more vaguely interesting facts about the korean language which i'm studying/appropriating!
-the words for "to know" and "to not know" are actually different words and not just the positive and negative versions of the same!
-all verbs are in the dictionary in the same exact form, if that makes sense. if you took french or spanish in school, you probably wanted to shoot yourself trying to remember the billions of conjugations between -ir verbs, -er verbs, -re verbs, and whatever else the french came up with. but with korean, all verbs end with -da! so no -er, -ir, -re, just da! isn't that great? you don't have to remember anything really. also, there is the same conjugation for you, me, she, us, etc. you don't even have to use pronouns half the time it's really cool
-you can learn how to read the korean alphabet, hangul, in a few days! unlike chinese, where each character has meaning, or japanese, where each character is a syllable so you have to memerise a hundred ish because ka is different from sa is different from ki. hangul is just a super simple alphabet you put together in blocks! here's where I learned how to read it at first
happy friday everyone! no school tomorrow yay!! bigbang made "a" coming out this weekend too if you care about that! i don't know how this ended up so long btw but i'll post it anyway because you know just post

I've tried to understand how Romanian verbs are conjugated (in the present tense), but from experience with French, I know that there are several conjugation patterns that apply when words end with certain letters. The main groups in French are -er, -ir and -re, and each of the groups require their own conjugation patterns. What are the Romanian conjugation groups, and how do they conjugate?
When it comes to irregular verbs, they just need to be memorized.